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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth. ↗

— Richard Posner

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Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. ↗

— Emily Post

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And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

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I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country. ↗

— Pol Pot

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Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters. ↗

— Franka Potente

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I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. ↗

— Franka Potente

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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame. ↗

— Franka Potente

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Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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